Parashat Chukat 5785 - Rabbi Leeor Dahan

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Leeor Dahan’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Okay, let's see over here. [Music] Ready [Music] to start? Just get to the right place. Very beautiful para. Here it is. Okay. I want to start from the episode that the Torah tells us towards the end of the para. This is of the nation speaks negatively about of the nation speaks negatively about Hashem and about Moshe. Why did you take us out of Egypt to die in the desert? There is no bread. There's no water. And we're sick already with this bread that we've been given. The ruined the bread that is um dangerous really. What they were saying dangerous really. What they were saying that she explains the man when you would eat it, you wouldn't need to relieve yourself afterwards and they would just be eating going into the body into the body. Nothing's coming out of the body. And they said, "That doesn't seem to be too healthy. Eventually something's going to rot internally, spoil, become bacteria, who knows, infections, and we're going to die from it." So he called the man considered this to be very serious offense of and says you speak about the man I'm going to bring the one who first spoke and was punished to punish you and that was the sob send snakes to punish and to bite a sob send snakes to punish and to bite a very dangerous venomous snakes to bite and to poison them is a may a way of saying that just like you spoke with your mouth and caused negative damage is you should know is one of those things that it feels innocuous. What did I already say? I spoke between me and my friend. We were just the two of us in the same room. But the next thing you know he spoke to the next person and then it became a whole community and

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1. 0:00Okay, let's see over here. [Music] Ready [Music] to start? Just get to the right place.…
2. 4:11person there something different about him he wasn't like a regular crazy person he looked like…
3. 8:50myself to not speak for 3 hours." And this is when the clock starts. Every day…
4. 13:24talking about? I told you 11. It's already almost 11:00. I keep Shabbat at 11:00. I'm…
5. 17:31accomplished stalling am that moment that ability to extend and to say I'll get close to…
6. 22:12what's going on first year and a half 10 tests 10 failures nothing nothing. last year…
7. 26:50goes through the whole laws of course very unique the says that there were only 10…
8. 30:56to do that and the answers yes because also is purified through a cow the so…
9. 35:34to go out. Nobody was allowed to work. There was a lot of people. It was…
10. 40:15it's good and if not say right we say init a great miracle happened here and…

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